Original Story: A series of images has appeared on Reddit showcasing characters and stages from Loco Roco, Heavenly Sword, BioShock Infinite, and others that could appear in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.

There isn't a whole of evidence to substantiate the legitimacy of these images, especially the characters, but the stages certainly seem believable. You can see all the images below, and it looks like stages from Loco Roco, Infamous, Ape Escape, BioShock Infinte, Resistance, Killzone, and Twisted Metal may all be appearing in the game. A stage from LittleBigPlanet that has already been confirmed also appeared in the images.

As far as the characters go, there is an image showing 12 characters. Six of the featured characters, Heihachi, Toro, Jak, and Cole, have been shown before. The others are all new. The image is obscured slightly with the word "leak" repeated all over it, but it looks like Raiden from Metal Gear Solid, Dante from the upcoming Devil May Cry from Ninja Theory, Ratchet, Sack Boy, Spike from Ape Escape, Sir Daniel Fortesque from MediEvil, Nariko from Heavenly Sword, and either the evil version of Cole or Nathan Hale from Resistance as commenters discussing the leak online have theorized, may be appearing in the game.

Again, there is no evidence to prove that any of these assets are actually from PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, other than the stages look like they could be from the game, and the characters all seem like ones that could conceivably appear in Battle Royale. If these characters and stages do turn out to be genuinely from the game, Nariko from Heavenly Sword is my favorite new character. I really adore Heavenly Sword and have always been disappointed that it seemed to fall into obscurity after it released. I would love to see it receive some recognition by appearing in All-Stars.

I'd really like to have the evil version of Cole and both Nathan Hale and a Chimera from Resistance. Nariko would also be welcome - I was surprised with Heavenly Sword (in a good way) except for the last boss fight.

i know this game is kinda ripoff of Smash Bros but hey maybe this is the only idea they got onto making a game with alot of Sony characters. And besides if they would've never done a rip off of SSBB they could've made Call of Duty ripoff. so think about it, its better a Smash Bros Ripoff than another game ripoff.( man i said ripoff to much)

The leaked stages look credible enough. Still not sure about the leaked characters. Someone could have gotten their hands on the leaked stages but then fake a leak on the characters and add it to the stage leak to make it seem more credible. Though that does seem pretty pointless to do just to fool some people, this kind of stuff has been done before.